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. >> belva: the other big controversy was over the salary of presidents in the system and the big raise that one got in san diego. >> exactly. >> belva: how did that all come about at the same time? >> it was amazing. because even as the trustees are raising, and the regions are racing the fees, a uc san diego campus president got a huge race and the uc system, mark larrett, got about a $1 million raise. that's not from state fund. others did get very hefty funds paid for by the state. why they do this, they say, well, these people have worked harder and they've taken on new responsibilities. and when you say that, well, the lower paid workers say, well, haven't we? >> in the market, these individuals in theory could go somewhere else and the system would lose them, right? isn't that the argument? >> harvard university head hunter came knocking on the door of mark larret, ceo of medical center at ucsf. that was the justification, the head hunter knocked on your door. they can't have him leave because he's in the middle of major projects. >> belva: can anybody make them rescind these inc
. >> belva: the other big controversy was over the salary of presidents in the system and the big raise that one got in san diego. >> exactly. >> belva: how did that all come about at the same time? >> it was amazing. because even as the trustees are raising, and the regions are racing the fees, a uc san diego campus president got a huge race and the uc system, mark larrett, got about a $1 million raise. that's not from state fund. others did get very hefty funds paid...
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but i think big question is what happens going forward. mina kim, you were there, too, through the most of this. have you had a chance to think about or hear from the organizers as to what's next? >> well, they are wrestling right now with this so-called black block or the black cloud vandals. i think the extent top which they can sort of margin alize them and say they were outsiders or a splinter group it will help them maintain the popular support that they are getting right now. the strike was pretty successful. you had thousands of people out there and as josh mentioned raeldly broad cross section. even with a handful of people that are saying i think this was a legitimate expression of discontent, they are able to maintain this notion that they are a splinter group then they might be able to maintain some of that momentum. they are wrestling with that right now. i think the other question, the question of what point how can they maintain the momentum without specific goals or demands. i think it might be working for awhile. it is attr
but i think big question is what happens going forward. mina kim, you were there, too, through the most of this. have you had a chance to think about or hear from the organizers as to what's next? >> well, they are wrestling right now with this so-called black block or the black cloud vandals. i think the extent top which they can sort of margin alize them and say they were outsiders or a splinter group it will help them maintain the popular support that they are getting right now. the...
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. >> i wanted to ask a little bit, i think money is always a big issue in california and how are we going to pay for this. i think the counties are incredibly worried about all these people coming back to them and what they need to do. i know almeda county, for example won't be keeping these type prisoners anyway, right? >> right. the counties that have been relatively liberal that don't send a lot of people to state prison right now are going to get less money. whereas counties like kern county, san bern dee no, river side county where they send people to state prison where a lot of cities in alameda wouldn't, they are going to get more money. they are worried about that. the state has agreed after one year to visit the formula for funding. so you can be sure that more liberal counties are going to ask that that be changed because they are getting the short end of the stick right now. >> let's talk about the practical part of this. you now have people in the county. they are to be overseen by i guess the local probation officers rather than going to the state parole board. but the issue
. >> i wanted to ask a little bit, i think money is always a big issue in california and how are we going to pay for this. i think the counties are incredibly worried about all these people coming back to them and what they need to do. i know almeda county, for example won't be keeping these type prisoners anyway, right? >> right. the counties that have been relatively liberal that don't send a lot of people to state prison right now are going to get less money. whereas counties...
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we see a big rise in the latino population here. and yet latinos aren't voting in great numbers for a myriad of reasons. is that going to change? will people try to tap in to that? and if they do vote, does it make it more democratic, more conservative or status quo? >> the share of the electorate of the latino has been growing and the reason it is lower than the population is a lot of the folks are not citizens or haven't registered to vote. now you have the children of immigrants who are in the schools and in the coming decade will be of voting age themselves and you will see the electorate more latino and asian. it will better reflect the dem gral graphics-demographics as the whole. right now it is 70% white. so that will change. you have latinos and asians moving from the cities in to contra costa county, stockton, river side. they are taking with them the more democratic politics. those parts of the state will be more blue or less red is a better way to describe it. >> are these folks voters? are these folks that are leaving an
we see a big rise in the latino population here. and yet latinos aren't voting in great numbers for a myriad of reasons. is that going to change? will people try to tap in to that? and if they do vote, does it make it more democratic, more conservative or status quo? >> the share of the electorate of the latino has been growing and the reason it is lower than the population is a lot of the folks are not citizens or haven't registered to vote. now you have the children of immigrants who...
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i'll give you the big thing. this evening by a vote of 218-210 the house of representatives approve a republican plan and that would raise the debt limit by $900 billion initially then another $1.6 trillion sometime in early 2011, but it is all linked to a balanced budget amendment which, of course, the senate says is doa on arrival. and, in fact, they voted and basically said it's doa and on arrival. in the senate a democrat plan will be voted on tomorrow and the republicans in a sense are saying they will vote tomorrow to say it's dead before it even gets here. you can see these adults are really getting along with each other. but the reality of the situation is we are no closer to a deal. in fact, arguably, we're farther from a deal. for the last six days, the stock market has gone down 500, 600 points, and monday if there's not a deal, we might see the market go into some sort of a panic. that's a real possibility because the bad news would flow from that would just be incredible. now, the big problem is that
i'll give you the big thing. this evening by a vote of 218-210 the house of representatives approve a republican plan and that would raise the debt limit by $900 billion initially then another $1.6 trillion sometime in early 2011, but it is all linked to a balanced budget amendment which, of course, the senate says is doa on arrival. and, in fact, they voted and basically said it's doa and on arrival. in the senate a democrat plan will be voted on tomorrow and the republicans in a sense are...
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the hospitals will say this is complicated stuff and the stakes are big. if we put in -- we are basically pulling back the sheet, if you will, and showing people the inards of the hospital. if mine reflects mine and my competitor doesn't, my reputation is on the line. >> how many thousands of people die. >> hundreds of thousands of people in the united states. >> this isn't like a restaurant. this is a big serious thing. >> belva: why has thereto not been penalties? there is no monetary price to pay for not doing it too. >> this is true for medicare and this is true for a couple of years. if you go in to a hospital and get an infection and there's a series of medical treatments the hospital has to do because of the infection, medicare won't pay for that. they will simply pay what you went to the hospital for. there are exemptions to that. it is not a hard and fast rule i. is true that medicare has tried to push on this issue. and med aid pretty soon will be coming on-line with similar requirements but what you hear from the hospitals and from people who tr
the hospitals will say this is complicated stuff and the stakes are big. if we put in -- we are basically pulling back the sheet, if you will, and showing people the inards of the hospital. if mine reflects mine and my competitor doesn't, my reputation is on the line. >> how many thousands of people die. >> hundreds of thousands of people in the united states. >> this isn't like a restaurant. this is a big serious thing. >> belva: why has thereto not been penalties?...
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i don't think it is going to have an effect on the way people vote that big. right now it would be to not vote for him. the baseball hall of fame ballot works in an interesting way. there are a list of guys who are eligible after they are doing playing for five years. if they aren't elected the first year they stay on the ballot as many as 14 years. my feeling about this is i am going to wait as long as i can to kind of get a view of the basketball landscape. if it turns out 80% of the people were using steroids, then it was a level playing field and i would feel better about voting. the frustrating thing for me about this trial is we didn't -- trials are supposed to be about learning the truth right? the truth was never discussed. it was all these legal games about did barry mean this when he said that. >> we already know the truth right. conte went to jail for steroids crimes. in victor conte's labs were records that had the initials blb, barry lamar bonds. call it circumstantial. call it whatever you want. what did barry look like? how was his behavior to y
i don't think it is going to have an effect on the way people vote that big. right now it would be to not vote for him. the baseball hall of fame ballot works in an interesting way. there are a list of guys who are eligible after they are doing playing for five years. if they aren't elected the first year they stay on the ballot as many as 14 years. my feeling about this is i am going to wait as long as i can to kind of get a view of the basketball landscape. if it turns out 80% of the people...
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but with a big question mark. it's like the barry bonds home run ball. that is a problem that should not occur. >> it's interesting caltrans' reaction to this. their initial reaction after the "bee" report that came out, you said 50 feet of documents if you were to print it all out. yet their initial reaction was to go after the journalist a little bit and to try to ruin his reputation. reminds me of the 2004 investigation where documents showed the contractors were hiding worker injuries and were cutting corners on welds, that they didn't have the quality control that they were saying that they did and perhaps in the end, taxpayers weren't getting what they paid for, whether the bridge was going to fall down or not. it's interesting that caltrans -- this seems to be their mode when something like this comes up. instead of saying, okay, let's look at how we do things -- what are you seeing with this? >> what i've seen over the years is it is an agency that is unfortunately overpoliticized from the top. it gets a lot of pressure from the governor's office
but with a big question mark. it's like the barry bonds home run ball. that is a problem that should not occur. >> it's interesting caltrans' reaction to this. their initial reaction after the "bee" report that came out, you said 50 feet of documents if you were to print it all out. yet their initial reaction was to go after the journalist a little bit and to try to ruin his reputation. reminds me of the 2004 investigation where documents showed the contractors were hiding...
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one of the big things is ethics charges. not charges but allegations that not necessarily the mayor but as campaign or some of the indepen"ent expenditures put out there to support him have raised questions about who is really supporting him. he has had tight alliances with former mayor willie brown who is a dynamic figure in city politics for a long time. rose pack and a lot of people may not have known about her, but insiders know her as a chinatown power broker and who is behind him? he is an affable long time city bureaucrat, and min stray or ao and does he know what is going on around him? >> and nothing is more fun than eight candidates, and are there issues that distinguish them or outliers on the end or a clump of them? >> if you are a voter, i would say to go to the web sites because that is the best place to see where they stand on the issue issues, but when you go to debate and have an -- have a minute to talk about these issues you want the muni to run on time, and parks that are available for families and things
one of the big things is ethics charges. not charges but allegations that not necessarily the mayor but as campaign or some of the indepen"ent expenditures put out there to support him have raised questions about who is really supporting him. he has had tight alliances with former mayor willie brown who is a dynamic figure in city politics for a long time. rose pack and a lot of people may not have known about her, but insiders know her as a chinatown power broker and who is behind him? he...
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so chuck reed, let's go to san jose he said, we've got a big problem too. no unions, ear going to going forward. city council may have tee claired a fiscal state of emergency which he says would give emergency powers to force some of the same proposals they're looking at in san francisco. higher retirement age, larger contributions to your pension fund. in that case most likely there's going to be a legal battle saying, can you do that? we've got our vested rights as sitting employees, how can you unilaterally about in and do this? >> belva: two approaches but both coming from the same problem. no -- there's no silver lining as to money made at the state -- >> except printing machines. public defender jeff adachi has made pension reform or changing how much money the city puts into the pension his number one priority. he went to the ballot last year. it looked like for a long time it was going to pass. then the unions as well as most of the city officials said this was a terrible idea. it was sunk at the ballot. pretty resoundingly. he's trying to gather si
so chuck reed, let's go to san jose he said, we've got a big problem too. no unions, ear going to going forward. city council may have tee claired a fiscal state of emergency which he says would give emergency powers to force some of the same proposals they're looking at in san francisco. higher retirement age, larger contributions to your pension fund. in that case most likely there's going to be a legal battle saying, can you do that? we've got our vested rights as sitting employees, how can...
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the next big thing. medicare. wow. it did coincide. friday was my birthday, the 15th of april, tax day, also the anniversary of the sinking of the titanic. i've been thinking about this for a couple of years now. i started doing this old geiser character around the dipper table and it got lots of laughs because people could see me transforming. all right, i treat every day as if it were your last. one day you'll be right. and not hearing things, and sometimes my daughter will call me gramps. you know, she'll say, oh, gramps, come and look -- and she'll wipe my face like this. and i play along. >> and the play also gives you an opportunity to also be the 12-year-old you once were. so it calls upon that sort of physicality. it might be an incredibly challenging thing to do, to go from being 12 to being 85 or whatever, as you do throughout the course of the play. and back again. >> it's called acting. i mean, you learn how to do that. and particularly -- my thrust with acting is to be able to do lots of different, physically-based roles.
the next big thing. medicare. wow. it did coincide. friday was my birthday, the 15th of april, tax day, also the anniversary of the sinking of the titanic. i've been thinking about this for a couple of years now. i started doing this old geiser character around the dipper table and it got lots of laughs because people could see me transforming. all right, i treat every day as if it were your last. one day you'll be right. and not hearing things, and sometimes my daughter will call me gramps....
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we got a big blast here. that was a report and some blame was placed on the federal government. >> i actually met with the families. it was a heart breaking day to meet with families who lost loved ones. we, over the last year, sense what happened in pennsylvania, since what happened in michigan where we've had these pipelines explode and people were killed, we have met with the gas and oil companies. we have organized so that now the gas companies will put up on their website where pipelines are. people move into neighborhoods and they have no idea a pipeline is running through their front yard. we want to get to the ideaed that somebody doesn't throw the switch in their house -- the light switch and the explosion occurs in their front yard. those kinds of safety opportunities are what we're trying to create. we have some responsibility for pipeline safety at the department of transportation. but we've given some of that responsibility over to the state. we want to work with the oil and gas companies to make
we got a big blast here. that was a report and some blame was placed on the federal government. >> i actually met with the families. it was a heart breaking day to meet with families who lost loved ones. we, over the last year, sense what happened in pennsylvania, since what happened in michigan where we've had these pipelines explode and people were killed, we have met with the gas and oil companies. we have organized so that now the gas companies will put up on their website where...
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. >> high core, high pressure big stakes. at the end you probably are going to close some funding. >> before they made it to this ball, these entrepreneurs went through an accelerator, like a boot camp for new businesses. accelerators our incubators are companies that provide guidance and expertise for new start ups. >> our entire vision is to make open source easy for organizations to use. >> this one in san francisco called angel pad is an intense 10 week course started by an exgroup of google employees who want to invest in the next wave of internet companies. >> we want to enable anyone anywhere to sell online with ease and simplicity and elegance. >> they have 2,000 applications for 15 slots. so it's like winning the lottery just to get in. then once you get in you have to work your ass off. you have to go without sleep for nine weeks. working around the clock trying to improve your product so you have a great pitch when you end up at demo day. >> vast majority of startups will fail. the way we can change that is to give
. >> high core, high pressure big stakes. at the end you probably are going to close some funding. >> before they made it to this ball, these entrepreneurs went through an accelerator, like a boot camp for new businesses. accelerators our incubators are companies that provide guidance and expertise for new start ups. >> our entire vision is to make open source easy for organizations to use. >> this one in san francisco called angel pad is an intense 10 week course...
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there was a big fight. donald fisher, they want to put his art collection into a museum in the presidio. that got shut down because they thought it would be too gaudy, too commercial. now there's a fight over a 14-building hotel which would be on the main post parade grounds. that's the most historic part of the presidio. this goes back to the 1700s, military formation out there. it's still up in the air. that's gone a little slower than the residential side. they need more money. roughly $500 million to complete that kind of renovation. the residential, they spent over $100 million. it was another building out there, presidio landmark, completely overhauled, it's a former hospital. they need to lease that, they're in the process of leasing that. right now those are high-end apartments. and those aren't leasing quite as quickly as the other housing. >> i haven't asked you about affordable housing. if it was the city of san francisco, you know, the agreement is 20% of the housing become affordable, that's ce
there was a big fight. donald fisher, they want to put his art collection into a museum in the presidio. that got shut down because they thought it would be too gaudy, too commercial. now there's a fight over a 14-building hotel which would be on the main post parade grounds. that's the most historic part of the presidio. this goes back to the 1700s, military formation out there. it's still up in the air. that's gone a little slower than the residential side. they need more money. roughly $500...
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a big problem where we've come to some conclusion. tell us about how this came about. >> i don't know how much people remember about this, but it was our own little exxon valdez in 2007. a 901 foot long cargo ship was heading from oakland to south korea. it was heavy fog. they couldn't even see the end of the ship, and they made the probably wrong decision to sail anyway. the local pilot, a guy named john coda was on the bridge of the ship with the chinese captain. they weren't communicating very well. they looked at a little red mark on the electronic chart. coda asked the chinese captain is that the middle of the bridge where i sail through. he said yes i think so. he steered the ship right at it. turned out it was actually marking the support tower of the bay bridge. 55 gallon oil spill. we had the settlement announced this week where the shipping owner and the shipping operator which hired the crew and operated the ship, a company called fleet management, both based in hong kong agreed to pay the federal and state government $44 m
a big problem where we've come to some conclusion. tell us about how this came about. >> i don't know how much people remember about this, but it was our own little exxon valdez in 2007. a 901 foot long cargo ship was heading from oakland to south korea. it was heavy fog. they couldn't even see the end of the ship, and they made the probably wrong decision to sail anyway. the local pilot, a guy named john coda was on the bridge of the ship with the chinese captain. they weren't...
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was there any way to avoid such a big chunk of people going? >> well, we have undertaken mandatory furloughs. as i said, we have 18% vacancy in staff by attrition. we have done court closure days. we've done pretty much everything that one can do short of layoff. probably the error that we made was we decided to spend our reserves rather than lay off people last year. and hindsight is 20/20. the people could have been laid off last year and maybe we would have been in somewhat better shape, but fortunately our folks were employed another year and access to justice was guaranteed for another year. >> belva: today the judicial council that's supposed to look out for these kinds of problems met. you were there. what did you tell them? >> i told them three things. i told them that personally i was disappointed that their mission and the mission that they reiterate to anyone and everyone is that they will provide support and service to the trial courts had not been fulfilled. i told them that i thought it was imperative that they look at the two big
was there any way to avoid such a big chunk of people going? >> well, we have undertaken mandatory furloughs. as i said, we have 18% vacancy in staff by attrition. we have done court closure days. we've done pretty much everything that one can do short of layoff. probably the error that we made was we decided to spend our reserves rather than lay off people last year. and hindsight is 20/20. the people could have been laid off last year and maybe we would have been in somewhat better...
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>> those are the big ones. we're going to continue hearing about the rail extension into china town. they are going to start hammering a lot on the campaign finance report. so the new ones came out yesterday. says they are going to look at not only how much money the candidates raised, but really take a close look at the independent expenditures because there is not a limit to the candidates' own campaign. you can give as much money as you want to for or against it. we're starting to see that play a lot. there have also been some allegations that there is something going on around there with some of lee's supporters. state senator who is running has tapped into a lot of expenditure money on his behalf from the teachers unions, we are being inundated in san francisco with calls, with mails coming in, tacks every week. i don't know if the vote rerz paying attention to that or not. >> the dvd or ed lee. >> this is put on by some of his wealthy supporters but it was brian wilson. it is kind of a hip hop rap video f
>> those are the big ones. we're going to continue hearing about the rail extension into china town. they are going to start hammering a lot on the campaign finance report. so the new ones came out yesterday. says they are going to look at not only how much money the candidates raised, but really take a close look at the independent expenditures because there is not a limit to the candidates' own campaign. you can give as much money as you want to for or against it. we're starting to see...
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you know, polls showed big government. a record fear of big government. a record distrust of anti -- of incumbents. anti-incumbent sentiment. taxes. it continues to be. even toward the end of the year, this fight in washington over the payroll tax. it went on and on. is this people paying their fair share or wealth distribution and socialism? this kind of debate went on. and we kept hearing about crises all year long. whether it was the debt ceiling or going down to the end of the year when thoughts were about another government closure which was averted. >> and yet as somebody who covers politics, take us back -- i mean, because i try to think 20 years ago we had a recession. we had a president who was struggling with it. we had an election around the corner. and yet this is not as clear, the politics. i mean, nobody can say for sure the president is absolutely in trouble and nobody can say where we're going next year. it's a lot muddier. >> even though president obama's approval ratings are low, when you look at congressional approval ratings, you are t
you know, polls showed big government. a record fear of big government. a record distrust of anti -- of incumbents. anti-incumbent sentiment. taxes. it continues to be. even toward the end of the year, this fight in washington over the payroll tax. it went on and on. is this people paying their fair share or wealth distribution and socialism? this kind of debate went on. and we kept hearing about crises all year long. whether it was the debt ceiling or going down to the end of the year when...
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that's really the big bugaboo. companies like twitter, zenga, yelp, that are potentially going to go public soon. that's where they could get a big hit on paying payroll taxes. san francisco is the only city in california that levf levies payroll tax on stock options. you get one for $10, sell it for $1,000, you'll get taxed on that higher rate right now. for a company like twitter that's potentially tens of millions of dollars. while there's a midmarket plan being contemplated, a number of other supervisors are coming in and saying maybe we have to reform the whole business tax and give a break completely citywide. >> at this point, when you have a company like twitter, internationally known, doesn't that company have san francisco over a barrel in this case? you don't want to lose a company like that. >> they absolutely do. and people are looking at twitter is the new technology boom in san francisco. that's where they are looking to have the jobs. we have the bread and butter of the hospitality industry but they
that's really the big bugaboo. companies like twitter, zenga, yelp, that are potentially going to go public soon. that's where they could get a big hit on paying payroll taxes. san francisco is the only city in california that levf levies payroll tax on stock options. you get one for $10, sell it for $1,000, you'll get taxed on that higher rate right now. for a company like twitter that's potentially tens of millions of dollars. while there's a midmarket plan being contemplated, a number of...
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they didn't get the big bat. and people are saying maybe the big bat is getting pablo sandoval to start hitting again. how key is he going to be to the -- >> let's talk about big bats, smaller guy. the panda. pablo sandoval, third baseman. he was pretty phenomenal two years ago. last year he kind of petered out. and one of the things, he's a big guy. gained a lot of weight. hard for him to get down and get the ball. hard to get around the bases. he was in a hitting slump. this off season, though, he worked really hard to get in shape. he even worked with barry bonds to try to get -- >> didn't he have personal problems, though? >> i believe reports say he went through a divorce. that would take his mind off the game as well. but he, too is coming back. he wants to make a contribution to the team. and probably a lot of that is to do with they're champions. he wants to be a champion next year. >> and barry zito, their highest paid player for a while, didn't even play in the world series. is he going to make a comeba
they didn't get the big bat. and people are saying maybe the big bat is getting pablo sandoval to start hitting again. how key is he going to be to the -- >> let's talk about big bats, smaller guy. the panda. pablo sandoval, third baseman. he was pretty phenomenal two years ago. last year he kind of petered out. and one of the things, he's a big guy. gained a lot of weight. hard for him to get down and get the ball. hard to get around the bases. he was in a hitting slump. this off season,...